It’s been less than 50 days from election night, when Benjamin Netanyahu stood onstage in Tel Aviv and celebrated his enormous victory, to Monday night, when he showed up in the Knesset, humiliated and desperate, to plead for his life.

In his view, this was a shocking and unnecessary event that merely underscores the pressure he is under. “You don’t call early elections over cosmetic issues,” he told Avigdor Lieberman. But even the heavy layer of makeup on his face couldn’t hide its pallor.

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